Those who enact unjust policies are as good as dead, those who are always instituting unfair regulations,

Look, I have inscribed your name on my palms; your walls are constantly before me.

For the Lord, our ruler, the Lord, our commander, the Lord, our king – he will deliver us.

‘What right do you have to be here? What relatives do you have buried here? Why do you chisel out a tomb for yourself here? He chisels out his burial site in an elevated place, he carves out his tomb on a cliff.

Now go, write it down on a tablet in their presence, inscribe it on a scroll, so that it might be preserved for a future time as an enduring witness.